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First published online January 8, 2007
Journal of Experimental Biology 210, 181-186 (2007)
Published by The Company of Biologists 2007
doi: 10.1242/jeb.02629

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Going wild: what a global small-animal tracking system could do for experimental biologists

Martin Wikelski^1,*, Roland W. Kays², N. Jeremy Kasdin³, Kasper Thorup⁴, James A. Smith⁵ and George W. Swenson, Jr⁶

¹ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
² Mammal Lab, New York State Museum, CEC 3140, Albany, NY 12230, USA
³ Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
⁴ Copenhagen Bird Ringing Centre, Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Denmark
⁵ Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
⁶ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA

View larger version (13K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Fig. 1. The body weight distribution of the world's mammals demonstrates that most mammals are small. Approximately 66% of the world's mammals cannot be followed over large distances (i.e. be tracked from space) because mammals smaller than 240 g cannot carry satellite transmitters (from Smith et al., 2003).